Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the material in cells that carries all genetic information in humans, animals, plants, and all living cells. It’s passed down from ...

DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say to understand our predisposition to genetic disorders, we need to carefully 'unzip' DNA's iconic ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

The tiny, mighty heater-powered system represents a step toward handheld genetic testing devices, which could be used to quickly and easily determine the presence of genes responsible for cancer or ...

DNA, which has a double-helix structure, can have many genetic mutations and variations. Credit: NIH The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks.

Double-strand breaks are among the most difficult forms of DNA damage for cells to repair because they disrupt the continuity of DNA and leave no intact template to base new strands on.

Recent efforts in our lab have focused on complexes mediating DNA double strand break (DSB) repair. These range from the Structure Maintenance of Chromosome Smc5/6 complex involved in rescue of ...